OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Walker, Thomas F.” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

Camille Pissarro · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Depth Sounder, by Walker, Thomas F.

Depth Sounder

Walker, Thomas F.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jalais Hill, Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro

Jalais Hill, Pontoise

Camille Pissarro · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Log and Rotor, Patent Model

Log and Rotor, Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, by Camille Pissarro

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Camille Pissarro · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Thomas Walker Gilmer, by Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871

Thomas Walker Gilmer

Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers, by Camille Pissarro

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers

Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79

Public domainThe Met
Coelothrix irregularis (Harv.) Børgesen

Coelothrix irregularis (Harv.) Børgesen

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Public domainThe Met
Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890, by Unidentified Artist

Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890

Unidentified Artist · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Triumfetta sp.

Triumfetta sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soprano Recorder in B, by Thomas Coenraet Boekhout

Soprano Recorder in B

Thomas Coenraet Boekhout · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Annona montana Macfad.

Annona montana Macfad.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823), by Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Melochia lupulina Sw.

Melochia lupulina Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Public domainThe Met
Land indenture for the Barbados plantation of Captain Gunston

Land indenture for the Barbados plantation of Captain Gunston

Artist not stated in the record · March 28, 1685

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by François Thomas Germain

Coffeepot

François Thomas Germain · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Sympetrum semicinctum

Sympetrum semicinctum

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Sympetrum semicinctum

Sympetrum semicinctum

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Susan Walker Morse (The Muse), by Samuel F. B. Morse

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)

Samuel F. B. Morse · ca. 1836–37

Public domainThe Met
Sympetrum semicinctum

Sympetrum semicinctum

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 1864 matched · 24 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 776662 matched · 40 examined · 23 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.